Blooper
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“I love floating around.”
—Blooper, Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars
| Blooper | |
| Official Artwork from New Super Mario Bros. | |
| Sub-Species | Baby Blooper, Blooper Nanny, Glad Blooper, Jumping Blooper, Mecha-Blooper
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| Affiliation(s) | Mushroom Kingdom, Koopa Troop, Bowser |
| First Appearance | Super Mario Bros. |
| Latest Appearance | Mario Super Sluggers |
Bloopers (also known as Bloobers) are squid-like creatures that are found in bodies of water. They made their first appearance in Super Mario Bros.. There are many kinds of Bloopers, though the standard Blooper in Super Mario Bros. swims towards Mario in a lazy homing pattern. Mario Party 8 is the first game in which Bloopers are playable. Bloopers can survive in and out of the water like in the Mario Kart (series). In a picture on the Mario Kart DS official site it is revealed that Blooper can have a mouth to squirt ink at the players in Mario Kart DS.
[edit] Appearances
[edit] Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island
Bloopers appear as fairly rare enemies in Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island. In this game, they only appear underwater, so Yoshi can only face them when he is in his Yoshi Submarine form. They will simply float in the water, making them more like obstacles than actual enemies. They can be destroyed by one of the Yoshi Submarine's torpedoes.
[edit] Yoshi's Island DS
Yoshi's Island DS features Bloopers appearing in early stages of World 3, where they will try to attack a Yoshi by hopping up and down in bodies of water. Bloopers can be easily defeated by being eaten, hit by an egg, or jumped upon. Three of them appear in the Island Museum. Eating them will not produce an egg.
[edit] Super Mario Bros.
Bloopers are some of the most resistant enemies in Super Mario Bros. They only appear in underwater levels, and will follow Mario relentlessly. They can only be defeated by a Fireball, which is strange, because Bloopers are always fought in the water.It appears that bloopers cannot touch the ground in Super Mario Bros, making it wasy to avoid the Bloopers as small Mario.
[edit] Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels
This game featured an extremely odd type of Blooper that could fly through the air the same way it swims through the water. This Blooper can be jumped on for 1000 points. These ones also looked slighty different than their seafaring relatives. They were shorter and slightly different colored.
[edit] Super Mario Bros. 3
Super Mario Bros. 3 featured two new types of Bloopers: Blooper Nannies and Baby Bloopers. The original Bloopers also appear in the same attack pattern they had in Super Mario Bros.. Also, the enhanced remake of Super Mario Bros. in Super Mario All-Stars featured pink Bloopers.
[edit] Yoshi's Safari
In Yoshi's Safari, Bloopers, oddly yellow colored though, appear as flying enemies who will try to harm Mario and Yoshi by ramming them; these Bloopers must be defeated by blasting them repeatedly with Mario's Super Scope. Also of note, the mech built and utilized by Iggy Koopa in Yoshi's Safari resembles a large Blooper.
[edit] Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars
| Super Mario RPG Enemy | |
| Bloober | |
| Location | The Sea, Sunken Ship |
| HP | 130 |
| Attack | 80 |
| Defense | 36 |
| Magic Attack | 21 |
| Magic Defense | 16 |
| Special Attacks | Ink Blast |
| Strengths | None |
| Weaknesses | Fire |
| Item Dropped | None |
| Coins Dropped | 0 |
| Flower Dropped | LUCKY! Flower |
| Experience Gained | 12 |
| Yoshi Cookie Item | Elixir |
| Related | None |
| Psychopath Thought | |
| "I love floating around." | |
In Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars, Bloobers can be encountered as enemies in The Sea and in and near the Sunken Ship. An extremely large Bloober, known as King Calamari, also appears as a boss in the Treasure Room of the Sunken Ship. In battle, Bloobers have low defense but high attack. As such, they can be easily defeated, but can do a good amount of damage. They also use their Ink Blast ability to do big damage. Bloobers have a high tendency to flee from battle.
[edit] Paper Mario
In Paper Mario, three large Bloopers appear in the Toad Town Tunnels. Each one is guarding a Badge, or a similar treasure, and each one is optional:
- Blooper
- Super Blooper
- Electro Blooper
The regular Blooper has 30 HP, its attack is 4, and has no defense. It can be found guarding the Shrink Stomp Badge, the first flooor Warp Pipes, or the Lavalava Island Warp Pipe.It is the weakest and smallest of the three Bloopers in the game. One of its more notable features is that it floats. meaning it will have to be jumped on.
[edit] Super Mario Sunshine
Bloopers reappear in Super Mario Sunshine. This would be the first game in which the Bloopers are able to stand on dry land and spit out goop. In fact, Bloopers only appear on dry land. If sprayed with water, causes them to be stunned for a short time. Also, if they happened to fall in water, they would dissappear in a cloud of smoke. Jumping Bloopers make their first and (so far) only appearance in this game as well.
In addition, a special variety of ridable Bloopers appear. These do not attack Mario and are owned by Big Daddy. Green Bloopers are the slowest, but best at steering. Yellow Bloopers have average speed and average steering. Purple Bloopers are the fastest but have terrible steering. These ridable Bloopers are only found in Ricco Harbor.
An extremely large, pollutant spitting Blooper, known as Gooper Blooper, also appears in Super Mario Sunshine as a boss in the areas Ricco Harbor and Noki Bay.
[edit] Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga
Bloopers make an appearance in Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga in the Oho Ocean Seabed, they use their classic style of moving: a zigzagging, odd pattern. These Bloopers attack by running into Mario or Luigi and damaging them. To defend, the Bros. need to Hammer the bloopers that they encounter.
A new type of robotic Bloopers, called Mecha-Blooper, also appear in this game. These bloopers attack with their tentacles, which are actually five Bullet Bills that are launched at Mario and Luigi. Bloopers can cause poison according to other websites, witch the item, Refreshing Herb, can heal.
[edit] Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door
| Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door Enemy | |
| Blooper | |
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| Max HP | Blooper's: 12 Tentacles: 3 |
| Attack | 1 |
| Defense | 0 |
| Location(s) | Rogueport Sewers |
| Log | A giant, squid like thing that attacks with its ink and tentacles. Based on its dialect, it may come from the western sea. |
| Items | None |
| Moves | Tentacle Slap (1), Ink Blast (1) |
| Tattle | That's a Blooper... and a really super-humongous one, too! EWWWW! It's all slimy!!! I just can't STAND slimy, nasty, icky things. G-R-O-S-S, gross! It attacks with tentacles and ink. Once you damage both it's tentacles it'll fall down... And then it's attack time! By the way, the tentacles each have 3 HP. Now relax and house on that slimy, nasty Blooper. |
| Bestiary 97 98 99 | |
A Blooper appears as the second mandatory boss in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door. This Blooper's tentacles are blocking the way to Petalburg, and Mario has to hit them with his Hammer. This makes the Blooper angry, and it attacks Mario. During battle it hangs off the ceiling, but after both the L. Tentacle and the R. Tentacle are defeated it will fall to the ground.
Although Bloopers do not appear as regular enemies in the game, they do appear in Bowser's underwater level. They are enemies that can simply be taken care of by breathing flames at them. After Bowser gets out of the water and is talking to Kammy Koopa, he can be heard saying, "I swallowed a Blooper!".
Luigi also has a partner named Blooey, who is a tough Blooper that Luigi accidentally threw into lava during his journey, thinking nothing of it. Blooey was afterward fried as a red, stiff Blooper for, most likely, the rest of his life. Blooey supposedly will keep following Luigi around until he gets his revenge, as he states. Blooey appears in Chapter 3. He suprisingly appears in Chapter 8 before the Shadow Queen is beaten, being darker and more forgiving to Luigi. Goombella notes that Blooey is a strange Blooper for the fact that he can live on land. However, Bloopers being able to live on land previously appeared in Super Mario Sunshine.
[edit] Super Paper Mario
In Super Paper Mario, Bloopers appear as somewhat common enemies in the Tile Pool, where they will attack the player by persistently following them and trying to touch them; as Mario and Princess Peach have no useful underwater attacks when the Tile Pool is first ventured through, players will need to use Bowser's fire breath to defeat Bloopers.
[edit] Super Mario Galaxy
In Super Mario Galaxy there are normal Bloopers that live in water and they can be defeated by a Star Spin or a Koopa Shell. They don't try to attack the player in this game, however, when they see Mario, they start to slowly float upward, and they will realease ink.
[edit] Mario Super Sluggers
Blooper continued his playable role in the baseball game Mario Super Sluggers as an unlockable character. To unlock Blooper in Challenge Mode, go to the top edge of the dock in Mario Stadium from where the warp pipe is and where you saved Baby Luigi. You have to use Princess Peach to find Blooper and for him to come out of the water. Blooper challenges you to a scouting mission before he will join your team roster. The scout mission is to get a double play with him at bat. He also can be unlocked by completing all the practice tutorials. His bat is solid white with a picture of his eyes on it. He also appears on the official boxart.
[edit] Other Appearances
Bloopers appear as enemies of the hero Link in the game The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening. These Bloopers look almost identical to the ones in the Mario series.
In Mario Party 3, two giant Bloopers (a child and its mother) appear on the board Deep Bloober Sea as obstacles, moving the player's character to different spaces all over the game's board. Bloopers also appear as enemies in the games Dance Dance Revolution: Mario Mix and Yoshi. In Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour, the name Blooper appears on the game's various scorecharts, though no Bloopers are ever seen in the game, not even in Blooper Bay, a course named after them.
Bloopers are also used as an item in Mario Kart DS and Mario Kart Wii. After the player has launched it, the Blooper will create a large ink blot on the screen of all the drivers who are currently in a higher rank than the player, which obstructs the driving view of human opponents and causes CPU characters to swerve around on the track. If used while in first place, it can backfire and cause ink to block the driver's screen.
A giant Blooper also appears in Mario Party 6 in the minigame: Blooper Scooper. Here, players have to avoid the whirl pool that the giant blooper creates.
In Mario Party 8, one Blooper is a playable character, unlocked by completing the Star Arena Mode and having Blooper as the opponent in Bowser's Warped Orbit. However, if Hammer Bro. is unlocked instead, the player must play through the Star Arena once more as Hammer Bro. In the game, Blooper floats like Boo, and uses two of his tentacles as arms.
[edit] Appearances in Other Media
[edit] Cartoons
Bloopers, known by their original name of Bloobers, appeared in two episodes of The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!: "20,000 Koopas Under the Sea" and "Mario of the Deep". In these episodes, they were portrayed as King Koopa's primary aquatic minions and carried out the bulk of his duties.
In The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3, Bloopers, as well as Blooper Nannies and Baby Bloopers, appeared in several episodes of the show, such as in "Mush-Rumors", "Oh, Brother!" and "Recycled Koopa".
[edit] Publications
Several Bloopers made a small appearance in the Nintendo Comics System story "Love Flounders", where they are among the group of sea creatures trying to get Mario to become Big Bertha's boyfriend, so one of them will not have to.
[edit] Characteristics
Along with swimming through water, Bloopers have a variety of abilities, the first of which, flying, was shown in Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels and has appeared in several other games since. In Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars, Bloopers were shown to be capable of burrowing through the ground, shooting globs of ink and blasting opponents with energy beams.
[edit] Trophy Information from Super Smash Bros. Brawl
A creature who's as squidlike as a squid can be. Bloopers patrol water stages, and with no notable weapons, their threat comes from their unique movements and speed. Some flying Bloopers display the same underwater movement above water. Blooper appeared for the first time as a playable character in Mario Party 8.
[edit] Sub-Species
- Baby Blooper – Small, juvenile Bloopers.
- Blooper Nanny – Bloopers who are followed by Baby Bloopers.
- Glad Blooper – Bloopers who are laid-back in nature and who swim happily.
- Jumping Blooper – Flesh colored Bloopers who leap in and out of water.
- Mecha-Blooper – Mechanical Bloopers who have launchable Bullet Bills in place of tentacles.
[edit] Notable Bloopers
- Big Blooper – Super Paper Mario
- Blooey – Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door
- Electro Blooper – Paper Mario
- Gooper Blooper – Super Mario Sunshine
- King Calamari – Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars
- Super Blooper – Paper Mario
[edit] Trivia
- A canceled type of Blooper were supposed to appear in Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time. These Bloopers were apparently Shroobified Bloopers and would've appeared in the Vim Factory; oddly, these Bloopers wore multiple red shoes.
- Some Bloopers, such as ones that appear in the Mario Party series, have been known to talk. This was also seen in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door with Blooey, although all other Bloopers in the game only make squid noises.
- Prior to their formal debut in Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels, flying Bloopers that could even be stomped (despite the fact that they seem to actually be underwater Bloopers misplaced) were unintentionally generated in World -3 of Super Mario Bros.'s Famicom Disk System version.
- In the FR version of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Blooper's name is not Bloups ( the FR name of the Bloopers), but Méga Bloups (the FR name of the Gooper Bloopers ).
- A simular water and land dwelling squid is seen in the Kirby series called Gloopers.
[edit] Foreign Names
| Language | Name | Meaning |
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| Japanese | ゲッソー Gessō | Pun on "geso" (げそ, squid legs) |
| French | Bloups | - |
| Italian | Calamako | Pun on "calamaro" (squid) |
| Korean | 징오징오 Jingojingo | Pun on "ojing-eo" (오징어, squid) |
[edit] Paper Mario Stats
- HP: 30
- Attack: 3
- Defense: 0
- Location: Toad Town Tunnels
- Tattle: This is a Blooper. Bloopers lurk in the dank pools of Toad Town Tunnels. They seem pretty unremarkable. Although... You have to wonder how they float in the air like that...
| Super Paper Mario Enemy | |
| Blooper | |
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| Max HP | 1 |
| Attack | 2 |
| Defense | |
| Card Type | Common |
| Card Description | Bloopers love to laugh at other Bloopers' bloopers. Nobody wants to end up on the Blooper reel. |
| Tattle | |
| List of Catch Cards 69 70 71 | |
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| Blooper Characters | |
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| Big Blooper | Blooey | Electro Blooper | Gooper Blooper | King Calamari | Super Blooper | |
| Blooper Species | |
| Baby Blooper | Blooper | Blooper Nanny | Glad Blooper | Jumping Blooper | Mecha-Blooper | |
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| Mario | Peach | Toadsworth | F.L.U.D.D. | Pianta Attorney | Pianta Captain | Pianta Judge | Doot-Doot Sisters | Sunglasses Salesman | Delfino Police | Big Daddy | Noki Elder | Sand Bird | Great Sunflower | Il Piantissimo | |
| Super Mario Sunshine Bosses | |
| Shadow Mario | Petey Piranha | Gooper Blooper | Wiggler | Mecha Bowser | Phantamanta | King Boo | Eely Mouth | Chain Chomp | Bowser Jr. | Bowser | |
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